HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


nine years as town clerk of Schleswig township and for six years as a member
of the school board. He was also president of the Meeme Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company for seven years. His death occurred in I902. Unto Mr. and
Mrs. Luedke were born four children: Constance Olga Annetta, eight years
of
age; Truman Henry, five years of age; Evelyn, two years of age; and a twin
of Evelyn, now deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Luedke hold membership in the Evangelical Reformed church
at Kiel and are interested in its work and in all that pertains to the material,
intellectual, social and moral progress of the community. His political support
is given to the republican party and for two years he held the office of
justice of
the peace, while for the third term he has been chairman of the Schleswig
board
of supervisors. While his business interests are large and of an important
char-
acter, he has ever found time to cooperate in public movements relative to
the
best interests of his community and both as a business man and citizen he
is
highly steemed for his sterling worth.
MICHAEL WEBER.
Michael Weber is a miller and farmer of Schleswig township and is making
for himself a creditable name in industrial and agricultural circles. He
has a
splendidly equipped milling property which he operates in the manufacture
of
both flour and lumber. He also owns a good tract of land and in its cultivation
employs modern methods. He is a native of Germany, born April 3I, I849, and
was but seven years of age when he came to America with his parents, Mr.
and
Mrs. Michael Weber. The father was a miller by trade, acquainting himself
with that business while in Germany and after he reached Wisconsin he built
at Centerville one of the first saw and flour mills in this district, thus
becoming
closely associated with the industrial and manufacturing interests of the
com-
munity.
Michael Weber, whose name introduces this review, spent his youthful days
in his father's home and after acquiring his education in the public schools
he
followed farming and milling at Pigeon Lake, erecting there a mill. Later
he
built the St. Nazianz mill which he operated until i9c6 when he came to his
present home in Schleswig township where he also owns a mill. He is now oper-
ating one of the most modern and improved water power mills in this vicinity.
The plant is splendidly equipped with the latest machinery and his product
finds
a ready sale on the market. Mr. Weber thoroughly understands the milling
lbusiness in principle and detail and his success is the reward of energy,
enter-
prise and honorable dealing.
On September 23, i879, Mr. Weber was united' in marriage to Miss Mar-
garet Reinhardt, who was born in Germany, November i, i86o. She was born
in the Rhein Province and her parents were John and Lucia (Thiel) Reinhardt.
H-er father is now living at the venerable age of eighty-three years. He
and his
wife came to America two and a half years after their daughter, Mrs. Weber,
had crossed the Atlantic with friends in I877. Mr. Reinhardt established
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